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It's great to see Nick and Rod return home to support this tournament after achieving such outstanding results this year.

The next 12 months will not only determine the very future of the domestic automobile industry as we know it, but Detroit will become the lightning rod for the most pressing issues facing this country -- health care costs, pension reform, global competition and its threat to the industrial foundation of America.

That remains to be seen. I hope that both campaigns are following whatever laws apply, but at the end of the day, money is not going to be the biggest thing in the race. It's about which candidate is best at articulating what's important to voters, and I think Rod Smith has proven that he's the best candidate at that.

Everybody says carp are just trash. But you put a carp on a nine-foot, five-weight fly rod and you're going to have a handful. Fly fishing for carp is becoming bigger and bigger all the time.

Everybody saw the plus-stuff; we didn't pull off any kind of heist or anything. We took a chance on a guy who was coming off of surgery, who had a steel rod in his arm, and got lucky.

Everybody saw the plus-stuff; we didn't pull off any kind of heist or anything, ... We took a chance on a guy who was coming off of surgery, who had a steel rod in his arm, and got lucky.

I've got a good old hot rod here. I'm almost embarrassed. ... Quickest don't win you championships and it don't win you races. But it sure makes you feel good.

Any time we have a new car, I'm encouraged. When the highly-skilled engineers and fabrication department at MB2 build a car, it's on the cutting edge of technology. I am very confident that we'll have another stout hot rod in California.

I'm not going to say consider the source, but why he was the lightning rod for everything wrong in Boston, I don't know. And I can only speak on what I've seen here, and he played great.

I kept waiting for Rod Steiger to come out of the closet because I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone. ... The Twilight Zone.

In leadership, you become a lightning rod and a target. It gives you influence to deliver for your district, but that comes at a high political cost. There comes a point where voters ask, 'Is he more concerned about coming back here or staying up there?

I know after the Connecticut game, I was personally exhausted. I felt like I had a rod in my neck and I didn't sleep at all that night. Some of it was the pressure the team felt with all those seniors.

I had to fish slow on the bottom, keeping my rod-tip near the surface. If I raised the rod even a little, the 40-mph wind became troublesome.

In the wet-barrel market - the real barrels that are stored and traded - there is no shortage of oil. But the paper barrels - the futures market - react like a lightning rod in a volatile market. That's their role.

I'll never forget this because our doctor told (Rooney) he didn't think Rod would be able to make the trip and that they were thinking about checking him into the hospital,

I picked out those clothes with the help of a professional stylist along with my wife, who might as well be a professional stylist. I've been trying to go in that nice, old-school, Rod Stewart kind of direction.

He started coming toward me with something like a metal rod or something in his hand. I sort of somehow squeezed the trigger off and shot him.

He's such an all-round player, which is a little unusual in today's tennis. He sort of reminds me a lot of Rod Laver.

Hosting the world championships at Rod Laver Arena last year also provided a boost to our gymnasts as they demonstrated the huge advances they have made over the past four years.

He that spareth the rod hateth his son.

He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

He's a rare threat. We've had Carnell Lake and Rod Woodson do similar things, but players like that don't come down the road too often. Troy is special.

If he can sometimes be a lightning rod and keep some of the criticism away from the president, I think that's fine with him.

I don't want to say he's a key, but it's pretty important he comes on and plays like he was playing before he was hurt. I thought he had a chance to be the best safety I've seen since Rod Woodson.

How long do you have from the warm-up to the end of the game? Three hours? That's probably not enough time to pay tribute to what he's meant to the organization. That's why there will be a day he will join Mike and Mark and Rod and Ed.

I don't like the idea of having a lightning rod by the water. I think the location is bad. I don't think it should be around the school.

I became very close with Charles Bronson and his wife, Kim. We did 'Sea Wolf' together along with Christopher Reeve. I've been lucky enough to work with some amazing, legendary actors. I worked with Rod Steiger twice, for instance.

And it will be exciting to be located in the Motor City's hotbed of hot rod and motorcycle enthusiasts just blocks from the famous Woodward Avenue.

And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

The Fugitive Slave Act was a flagrant example of Northern and federal collaboration with slaveholders, a lightning rod that led to the growth of the anti-slavery movement.

And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: / And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

The lines of authority were sometimes blurred for me, but I always felt like Rod Sr. had the last word.

God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

No better liar had there been in these parts as that ball player with hams for arms unless he be a man with a fishing rod and tackle box in his hands and his feet wet as rain.